110 Mr. 0. E. Janson's Notices of 



obtuse. Pygidium impressed ou eacli side, closely covered with 

 fine setiferous stria?. Beneath punctured and sparsely pubescent 

 at the sides; mesosterual process obli(|uely narrowed and obtuse 

 at the apex ; legs sparsely punctured, anterior tibite with one 

 strong lateral tooth, aud the apex very acute. Length 25 mm. 

 West Africa, Gold Coast, 



Allied to P. adinixta, Hope, but broader, more convex, and 

 altogether more roljust. with the carina on the head much more 

 dilated, flattened, and forming a longer but less elevated curved 

 ridge before the apex of the clypeus; it is also of a different 

 colour and without any of the Avhite markings as in that species. 



Synonymia. 



Hrtcroi rliina hwkaada, Bates. Ent. ]Mo. Mag. xviii, j). 5U'J 

 (IXSl) zz Gi'Uijodvnta hvviplaga, Raff. Kev. Zool., 1877, \k 

 32i», t. 2, f. 1. 



lleterorvhinu gratiosa, Ancey, Le Nat., 1881, p. 509 rr Smarag- 

 (Icsthes alternata, King (1855). 



Cetonia Dohrni, Harold, Compt. Rend. Soc. Belg., I.S80, p. ;-3 

 rz C. iinpavida, O. Jans., Cist. Ent. ii, p. 538 (1879j. 



Cetvnia iniiniiht, Harold, 1. c, p. 8 rr C. fameltra, O. Jans.. 

 1. c, p. 539 {1S79). 



Pnrhnod(( pugmwa, Kraatz, Deuts. Ent. Zeit. xxiv., p. 157 

 (ISSO) — P. viriduna (Parry), Blanch. (1850). 



DipliigiKithd inccidt'S, Thorns., Mus. Scicnt., p. 37 (1861) =r D. 

 adm ix la, II ope ( 1 (S 4 2 ) . 



